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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS index 76b655263297..7b7022ca097a 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/NEWS +++ b/contrib/ncurses/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.568 2000/07/02 01:16:51 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.599 2000/10/10 01:02:11 tom Exp $ This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992. @@ -6,6 +6,324 @@ working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992. Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim. Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey. +20001009 + + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic, + which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan + Butterfield <primus@veris.org>). + + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was + setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g., + using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917). + > patch by Todd Miller: + + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent(). + Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the + simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars(). + + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable. + > patches by Ilya Zakharevich for OS/2 EMX: + + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler + options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse. + + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails + to set up a 3-button mouse. + + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to + replace select() call. + +20001007 + + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in + legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov). + + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by + Albert Chin-A-Young). + + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole + cursor report before decoding. + + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1 + convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured + (see assume_default_colors()). + + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and + reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and + development + + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to + disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current + user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with + several people). + + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on + $TERMINFO variable for installs. + + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings + for that capability. + + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is + longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen). + + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions + _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths + used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen <jouko@solutions.fi>). + +20000930 + + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in + include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This + information is used to tell which strings are translated when + converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap + would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d". + + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an + absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by + discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young). + + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's + man-page. + + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir + and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke + <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>). + + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently + compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since + either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler + (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young). + +20000923 + + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor + save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes. + The cursor restore would undo that (from a NetBSD bug report by John + Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>). + + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in + terminfo.src -TD + + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case + someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero). + + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c + next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes + a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>). + + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an + alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing. + + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and + implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the + capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or + parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov). + + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference + the expected number of parameters. + + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that + the option value is indeed a number. + +20000917 + + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another + way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD + + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916 + +20000916 + + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD + + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers + <eric@ale.org>). + + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a + termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets. + + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has + no symbolic links. + + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches. + + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video + with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain). + + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate + character set attribute from the displayed text. + + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c + which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking + alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>). + + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile + with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf: + 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young). + +20000909 + + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which + made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam. + + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for + devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis + <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold + mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability. + + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs + list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers. + + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as + an empty string. + + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as + 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput + init'. + + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related + code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames. + + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its + removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making --enable-const + work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer). + + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902. + +20000902 + + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any. + + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven + W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>). + + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid + using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A + Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>). + + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro. + This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic + links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of + 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young). + + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented + building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond + <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>). + + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or + GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin + <proski@gnu.org>). + + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for + ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in + code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef". + +20000826 + + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD + + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>). + + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different + terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to + misc/emx.src + + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify + setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX. + + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, + Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by + <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>). + + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not + distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags + rules in makefiles. + + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll() + only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity + corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper + <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6). + + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than + AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set + a default program-prefix. + + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the + AC_CANONICAL_* macros). + +20000819 + + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub + + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7 + + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for + the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc. + + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the + uninstall rule work for transformed program names. + + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from + INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage + although the name is misleading). + + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version + of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the + NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in + addition to the major and minor version numbers. + +20000812 + + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names + a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro. + + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx + 2.8.4dev.7). + + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow + specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert + Chin-A-Young). + + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history. + + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files + that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec + <rsk@gsp.org>). + + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure + script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the + --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup + <scancm@biobase.dk>). + + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs + in autoconf 2.29a alpha. + + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in + test/configure script. + + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both + alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean, + number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic. + +20000730 + + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h + +20000729 + + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear + text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also + correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann + <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>). + + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and + getbkgd(). + + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that + trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this. + + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call + returnChar(). + + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype. + + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis. + +20000722 + + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by + <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer). + + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter. + + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses, + which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not, + there's still the explicit configure option). + > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at + http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/ + + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty. + + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry. + + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have + an (unspecified) symbol conflict. + + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to + simplify working around implementations that define random + combinations of the related macros to zero. + + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old + implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro. + > patches by Bruno Haible: + + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8 + locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2. + + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2. + + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for + out-of-range value. + +20000715 + + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not + understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young). + + implement configure script options that transform installed program + names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross + references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>). + + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH" + directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and + menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller). + + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including + the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the + -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>). + + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb + interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this + with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does + work). + +20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + document configure options in INSTALL. + + add man-page for ncurses trace functions. + + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and + is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in + curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il(). + + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the + list of generated functions. + + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to + return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making + end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C + Miller). + + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they + are needed for SCO OpenServer. + + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease + dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64. + + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors() + for testing. + + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses + whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary + Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>). + + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for + shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc. + + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's. + + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for + cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter + Wemm) (err in 20000610). + + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for + examples cited in announce.html + > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>: + + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function + _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak. + + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like + that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4). + + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of + UpdateAttr() out of for-loops. + + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops + (cf: 960428). + 20000701 pre-release + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for |